The main circulating collect is of books is shelved in open stacks on Level S. The elevator to this level of Baker is in the Stamps Reading Room on the third floor. Most Books from the general collections may be borrowed for four weeks. HBS faculty may arrange for extended loans.

The Stamps Reading Room houses additional book collections including:

Core Collection - established in 1969 as a browsing collection, the Core Collection contains more than 2,000 books that reflect the teaching and interests of the Harvard Business School. List of Core Collection Books by Call Number (Generated 5/29/2013)

Harvard Business School Thesis/Dissertation Collection - Circulating copies of HBS DBA theses completed before 2005. Recent dissertations can be downloaded from Dissertation Abstracts/Digital Dissertations (UMI) and microfilm copies of selected HBS theses since 1972 are available through University Microfilm Incorporated. Earlier theses can be ordered through the Imaging Lab at Harvard College (617-495-3995). Archival copies of HBS dissertations together with selected HBS PhD (Business-Economics) dissertations are held in the Historical Collections Department . For more information, please contact the Historical Collections Reference Staff.

The current issue and up to two years of most active journals and magazines are housed in alphabetical order in the Stamps Reading Room, as are the most recent editions of several newspapers. Bound volumes are kept in the Baker Library stacks or in Baker Old Class. Serials do not circulate outside of Baker Library.

Baker Library's Historical Collections contains manuscripts and rare books from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries, paper corporate report holdings dating back to the early nineteenth century, and the HBS Archives. Many of these items have catalog records in the HOLLIS Catalog. Historical Collections also curates material added to the general collection before 1971 in the Baker Library Old Class collection. The unique arrangement of the collection brings together books, periodicals, government documents, corporate histories, and pamphlets organized by industries in one place. It is valuable for historical research, particularly for tracing the development and growth of American business and industry from the late nineteenth to the first decades of the twentieth century.